About Us

Live Music Awareness is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN 99-0325262) founded to help professional musicians bring their music to the public. LMA presents and supports live music, helps musicians find and realize performance opportunities, and fosters the general health of all kinds of music in Hawaii.

An important part of LMA’s mission is education, helping everyone to understand music and musicians better, and to realize that music is made by live human beings, not by machines. To that end, LMA presents music programs in schools, libraries, and other public places, and publishes materials to assist in the educational process.

Live Music Awareness is a resource for musicians, adopting musician-proposed projects and providing administrative support and technical assistance for musical projects that would otherwise not happen for want of skills in concert management. The musicians gain income and career stability in the process, but the public is the ultimate beneficiary, gaining more opportunities to hear the artistry of Hawaii’s finest musicians.

Live Music Awareness presents many different projects and maintains several separate endowment funds to support the specific activities associated with them.

Meet the LMA Board

PRESIDENT

BRENDA CHING recently retired from her position of over 30 years as Executive Director of the Screen Actors Guild-Hawaii Branch (now SAG-AFTRA). Brenda served on the Executive Board of the Hawaii State AFL-CO and has been a tireless advocate for workers’ rights in the entertainment industry.

VICE-PRESIDENT

CHRIS CONYBEARE is an attorney with extensive experience in film and television production. Chris also serves on the board of the Hawaii Peoples Fund and works to advance many educational and philanthropic efforts in labor and the arts.

SECRETARY, TREASURER, ADMINISTRATOR

MARSHA SCHWEITZER is a bassoonist with the Spring Wind Quintet and Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. She is retired Secretary-Treasurer of the Musicians Association of Hawaii, Local 677 AFM, and is currently involved in governance and/or management with Chamber Music Hawaii, the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame, and Americans for Democratic Action-Hawaii.

DIRECTORS:

NAOMI CARTER is retired from her position with the City & County of Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation, where she gained knowledge and experience in the logistics of event presentation, and in compliance with governmental policies and regulations.

MICHAEL LARGARTICHA is retired President of the Musicians Association of Hawaii, Local 677 AFM. Prior to his union service, he was a radio and television producer in Los Angeles and Honolulu. Since his retirement, he has become a civic activist in his new Pennsylvania location.

JAMES MOFFITT is President of Chamber Music Hawaii; Vice President of the Musicians Association of Hawaii, Local 677 AFM; clarinetist with the Spring Wind Quintet and Hawaii Symphony; lecturer in clarinet at the University of Hawaii; and formerly the chair of the Honolulu/Hawaii Symphony Musicians Orchestra Committee.

Board of Directors

Contact Us:

PO Box 22879
Honolulu, HI 96823
(808) 531-6617
livemusicaware@aol.com

Proposals Welcome

LMA welcomes proposals for new projects that further our musical and educational mission. If you are seeking a fiscal sponsor for your musical project, large or small, please contact Marsha Schweitzer at livemusicaware@aol.com.